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THE last word is never uttered on the vexed question of policing in 21st-century Britain. We have a long history of riots, disturbances, insurrections and demonstrations in which the public discussion is continually diverted from the substantive issues at stake — the repeal of the Corn Laws, the demand for a People’s Charter of democratic rights, the right to strike, the right to a job, against nuclear weapons and imperialist wars, against the imposition of the poll tax, anger at deaths in ...

Having just finished writing a 600-page book about The Beatles, I was feeling rather pleased with myself. To celebrate its completion, friends gave me a Beatles-themed version of Trivial Pursuit. Ho, ho, ho, I thought, smugly: this will be a pushover! After all, I am now an expert! The first question — What is the opening song of the White Album? — was a breeze. It only took me barely a second to answer: Back In The USSR. Correct! The next proved somewhat trickier. What was Ringo’s date o...

Published: What were the Corn Laws? The most infamous Corn Laws were the protectionist measures brought in by the British government in 1815, which restricted the amount of foreign grain that could be imported into the country. Advertisement Duty-free grain from overseas was only permitted if the price at home had reached 80 shillings per quarter for wheat (a quarter being roughly one-fifth of a tonne) – a price that was never achieved in the 30 years that the laws applied – ...

Amino acids are in extreme short supply with Chinese producers prefering to sell in the mainland to avoid the difficulties of securing shipping. Mar 03, 2021 Last week was extremely volatile for the United States methionine market. On Thursday (February 25th), it was announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce set early anti-dumping duties up to 135% against foreign amino acid imports in a preliminary finding that Japan, France and Spain methionine producers were selling the produc...

Philip Collins (The Public Square, 26 February) sees astutely beyond the old debates about Boris Johnson. Johnson, like his hero Disraeli, is a career politician with a ravenous hunger for climbing the tiered cake-stand of public life. This Prime Minister is not an ideologue on a mission like Thatcher or Corbyn. Instead, like a late-Victorian Conservative, Johnson sees himself as playing the “great parliamentary game”. The point of this game is to win and keep office. Johnson constantly r...

GLOBAL Britain has a golden opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the worlds economy now that the nation has freed itself from the shackles of the EU, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has said.

A new bargain with farmers is needed for India to have a shot at reclaiming past glory. In 1750, the Mughal Empire accounted for about a quarter of the worlds industrial output, and cotton textiles from Bengal and Kerala were traded worldwide.

It’s not enough to say giving free rein to markets will automatically make farmers productive & prosperous. Someone has to explain the new arrangements.

The True Story Of The Potato Famine Print Collector/Getty Images By Daniel Johnson/Feb. 1, 2021 4:52 pm EDT Famines have devastated countries with limited access to resources or in the aftermath of a natural disaster for centuries. However, few famines have wreaked havoc to a nation like the Irish Potato Famine in the middle of the 19th century. In a span of less than a decade, the population of Ireland decreased drastically, with the citizens either succumbing to starvation or...

Yves here. This is another tour de force from Michael Hudson, derived from a paper he presented in early January at the UPRE session during the annual ASSA meeting. This time he turns from his recent focus on the economically destructive but oligarchy-advancing practice of sanctifying debt to another favorite topic, the evolution of capitalism. Hudson looks from the early Industrial Revolution onward and demonstrates that the dominance of financial capital over industrial capital was neither th...